- Twice, Che plotted terrorist attacks against New York City. In November 1962, the FBI cracked a terrorist plot by Cuban agents who targeted Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdale’s and Grand Central Terminal. They planned to blow up those landmarks with 12 incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT the day after Thanksgiving. Several months before visiting New York in December 1964 and being feted by the toast of the city’s intelligentsia, Che hatched a plan with the Black Liberation Army to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument. The plotters were infiltrated in 1965 by a sharp-eyed NYPD cadet.

- Che detested rock and roll and railed against “long hairs,” “lazy youths,” and homosexuals. At one point, he wrote that the young must always “listen carefully – and with the utmost respect – to the advice of their elders who held governmental authority.”

And he was pro-establishment? Sheesh.

He did personally order 700 executions. Maybe that’ll redeem him in leftist eyes.

More: If you want the front page pic on a T-shirt, well, that’s where it came from. I don’t agree with everything that Bureaucrash, the folks who designed the shirt, say or do. But they make some of the best political T-shirts you’ll ever find. Here’s the Communism Kills shirt with skull Che on the front. Cigar afficianados should love this one.

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Between recent statements by Hillary and Edwards, I’m sensing that “liberals” are feeling they can be a little more open now about their Marxist sympathies. It’s good that they come out of the shadows.

Ohh the irony. The long-haired, hard-rocking, homosexual-rights-supporting libs that wear the Che t-shirts would be the first on his list to be eliminated. I’d call them useful idiots, but they aren’t all that useful.

Finally! All my life I’ve heard how awful Che was. But no one gave any actual facts. It was considered a tautology. It’ll be good to see it documented instead of just having to nod knowingly next time the subject is brought up.

State Department Cable, Official Confirmation of Death of Che Guevara, October 18, 1967: Ten days after his capture, U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, Douglas Henderson, transmitted confirmation of Guevara’s death to Washington. The evidence included autopsy reports, and fingerprint analysis conducted by Argentine police officials on Che’s amputated hands. (Che’s hands were cut off to provide proof that he was actually dead; under the supervision of CIA agent Gustavo Villoldo, his body was then secretly buried by at a desolate airstrip at Villagrande where it was only discovered in June 1997.)

Ohh the irony. The long-haired, hard-rocking, homosexual-rights-supporting libs that wear the Che t-shirts would be the first on his list to be eliminated. I’d call them useful idiots, but they aren’t all that useful.

Mallard T. Drake on June 8, 2007 at 10:27 AM

That’s because most of the d@mn fool never knew what Che was like, how he died, or what Castro did for him.

Thanks for the link, I’ll be buying this book.

You should also consider a book by Grayston Lynch about the Bay of Pigs. Incredibly eye-opening, particularly how J eFing Kennedy eFF’d the whole operation.

Funny, all my Cuban friends in Florida are all of the same opinion: Che and Fidel are monsters. But hey, who are they, right?

Malpaso on June 8, 2007 at 10:32 AM

Likely because they lived through the Bay of Pigs, had relatives that participated, or had relatives murdered by Che or Castro.

Finally! All my life I’ve heard how awful Che was. But no one gave any actual facts. It was considered a tautology. It’ll be good to see it documented instead of just having to nod knowingly next time the subject is brought up.

jdpaz on June 8, 2007 at 10:48 AM

Fontova has written more than one book on the subject, both very good.